Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

724 reviews

bskalka's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I will say I almost didn't rate this five stars, it was a really tough decision. I loved all of the side character pov's and how everyone had their issues going on, but

I felt like Frank didn't deserve his happy ending. When he did finally go visit Cleo in Italy, he acknowledged, but didn't apologize, which she definitely deserved an apology. The fact that he got sober for Elenore but didn't even try for Cleo and still had a nice ending left a sour taste in my mouth. However, I kind of realized that we, the readers, aren't supposed to forgive Frank for what he did. The last chapter still puts an emphasis on how Cleo felt like he didn't really resolve things correctly with her and was still subtly playing the victim card. It felt better that Cleo seemed to also have a happy ending. From the start of the book I feel like I could tell they weren't going to end up together, and Franks relationship with Elenore also kind of solidified that for me.

After thinking about the ending for a while and realizing that Coco Mellors didn't want Frank to be perceived as some kind of redeemed character, I decided I would still give this five stars. Also I want a book about Quentin so bad. He was easily my favorite character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism

paula357's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional

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the beginning was really hard and the writing felt extremely bumpy. but after some time i started to enjoy the book and then really fell in love with the characters

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death

nico7701's review against another edition

3.75

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The writing was fine, but I missed an overarching story. There isn’t really a point to this book and the writing isn’t good enough to be a literary masterpiece to be worth reading for just that. I also cannot stand self-pitying, self-righteous self-insert characters. And overall I deeply disliked all characters (except for Santiago). I really wanted to tell them all „as if it isn’t the consequences of your own actions“.
It‘s fine, but I think it’s overhyped and wouldn’t necessarily recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt

redflagtaste's review against another edition

3.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

arianappstrg's review against another edition

2.5

dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racism

cherrywine13's review against another edition

2.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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this book is truly the definition of "no plot, just (toxic) vibes"

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Mental illness, Suicide attempt

Minor: Drug abuse

oliiviaalice's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

luisagerdsmeyer's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful relaxing

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use

jillianslay's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Not bad! Bought it in a Waterstones in Highbury and Islington, I was sort of tipsy and wanted to buy a book so I picked this up. I've enjoyed it but I don't have any strong feelings about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Blood

Minor: Animal cruelty, Death of parent

petronelle's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide